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During our Christmas trip, Alex and I were incredibly lucky to meet photographer Max Wanger and his beautiful girlfriend Margaux in Los Angeles. We played in a park, with a giant pink balloon, and, somewhat bizarrely, on a trampoline at musician Mark Mothersbaugh's house. (Their friend was housesitting for him.) Max just sent us the photos, and we are absolutely thrilled; I have probably looked through them a thousand times. See many more on Max's website. Thank you so much, Max!

P.S. Plus, the photos that first made us fall in love with Max on Smitten.

Gorgeous, radiant Joanna! These photos are perfection. I loved Max's photography already, but seeing what he has achieved in these photos of you and Alex really shows him taking it to the next level. You two look so delightfully, dreamily, sweetly in love. Congratulations!!!

lucky lady! your photographs are great, what a great photographer! I love that you guys are just doing random stuff, I do have to say I hate super staged engagement photos ie. people standing in front of a tree hehehehe! I can't wait to see the wedding photos IF these are just the engagement photos!

anthonia, i don't think engagement photos are the norm anymore--they used to be, i think, in traditional weddings, but people are getting them less and less. it's more of a way to try out your potential wedding photographer to see if you work well together, i think. personally, we're going to use one as our save-the-date, probably as a postcard or something. i hope this helps! love, joanna xo

SUCH a fabulous idea to use one on the save the dates. the balloons, the mood, and esp the ones of you guys snuggled up are just utterly romantic! what a wonderful way to capture this time in your lives.

i posted a link on my wedding blog, including my favorite pics.http://idotimestwo.blogspot.com/

Your photos are so full of happiness they make me think of this from Pablo Neruda:"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;So I love you because I know no other way"Congratulations!

gorgeous photos! sure wish max had been my wedding photographer back in 1991. yikes. what was he even doing then? for all your balloon-loving readers, here's url for my recent post about hunting for red balloons:

These are the kind of engagement photos I hope to have someday--very romantic and whimsical, just pieces of you guys. Not overdone at all, like most engagement photos, which seem to be leading up to those awful "hand on hand with rings" photos. Congratulations again, and you both look gorgeous!

i am still in 'vacation mode' (i.e. not blogging), but i just wanted to pop in to say that these photographs are so lovely and touching...i love the washed out colors, the hazy southern california lighting, everything!

we never did engagement photographs, but these make me wish i had. too bad i don't live in SoCal anymore!

Joanna, WOW!! Just saw these photos on Leigh's blog & had to come over and say WOW!! I'm blown away!! I've never seen anything like them - you both look positively exquisite & so in love. I know you'll treasure them (and each other) forever. Huge congratulations & love!

Those are fantastic. I love the lighting and the unique composition, but most of all, I LOVE the balloon... what a wonderful touch of whimsy. (And I don't know you at all, but you look like a very cute couple!)

Hi, I don't know you personally but saw one of your balloon photos on my dear friend, Chrissy's Facebook page and simply had to see the rest. Tell Max he's fantastic. Makes me want to get engaged all over again! Thanks for sharing with incurable romantics!

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